So I've been reading stuff about fountain pens, because that's the hole I'm in at the moment. (No, you just bought two cheap fountain pens off ebay*).
There's a problem that your pen nibs can have that's called Baby's Bottom (due to over-polishing the nib during the manufacture process), and I am absolutely twelve years old, because I laugh every time I see it written down.
Also I think I finally found out what the no-name fountain pen (that I actually really like) is! It is entirely possible that it's either a Jinhao or a Wing Sung, because both companies make grey demonstrators (clear or translucent pens), and both of them look similar to mine! I have no way of knowing for sure, but that's neat that I have some kind of idea now.
I also put a cartridge in one of mum's Sheaffer's** that has a fine ballpoint on it, and it writes like a flipping dream! It started straight away, and it's so smooth on paper, I love it. It's not quite as, uh, buttery as my Kaweco, but it's still bloody good. The only problem I find with it is having a nice paper for it to write on (Pukka Pads paper seems to be the best so far). This is down to a combination of things which I won't bore y'all with (I imagine you're bored enough already, right? ;) )
My Kaweco, on the other hand, writes on everything I've tried it on, without feathering, and that's with the cartridge it came with (own brand), and Diamine Oxblood in the converter I got for it. Which, I suppose, proves that you get what you pay for? Although from remembering using fountain pens when I was younger, I never (iirc) had trouble with ink feathering on paper, and I was using cheap ass pens then because my mum couldn't afford to buy me anything better. So honestly, WHO KNOWS.
Look. I just really like pens okay, and I need to tell this all to someone, because if I tell my friend Sarah I bought cheap fountain pens, she will yell at me (I mean, not really, but also pens are SRS BSNS for her - she recced me the Kaweco, and she owns at least one Sailor, and TWSBI Eco. She doesn't do pens under £10, probably. I will have to ask her one day!)
All of this makes me wish I'd kept using a fountain pen past the age of twenty. I was about eleven when I first started using them (either on my mum's instructions or because other people at school did, and I wanted to be like them). But as I gradually got older, I turned to gel pens and biros instead. The last time I remember really using a fountain pen was when I was copying hieroglyphs from books when I was around twenty. BUT. I'm going to restart using them! Especially if it means less hand pain/stress on my wrist. Not that I write tons of anything these days, but maybe one day I will write more again, who knows.
Okay, time to go and do something else, I think, since I don't think I have anything else to say!
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*The Jinhao 992 (Sailor 1911 clone), and the 599 (Lamy Safari clone). I partly wanted pens of my own, but I also wanted a cheap one I could use outside the house and not cry (too much) if I lost it.
**There are A LOT, as Sheaffer were her favourite brand of fountain pen.
There's a problem that your pen nibs can have that's called Baby's Bottom (due to over-polishing the nib during the manufacture process), and I am absolutely twelve years old, because I laugh every time I see it written down.
Also I think I finally found out what the no-name fountain pen (that I actually really like) is! It is entirely possible that it's either a Jinhao or a Wing Sung, because both companies make grey demonstrators (clear or translucent pens), and both of them look similar to mine! I have no way of knowing for sure, but that's neat that I have some kind of idea now.
I also put a cartridge in one of mum's Sheaffer's** that has a fine ballpoint on it, and it writes like a flipping dream! It started straight away, and it's so smooth on paper, I love it. It's not quite as, uh, buttery as my Kaweco, but it's still bloody good. The only problem I find with it is having a nice paper for it to write on (Pukka Pads paper seems to be the best so far). This is down to a combination of things which I won't bore y'all with (I imagine you're bored enough already, right? ;) )
My Kaweco, on the other hand, writes on everything I've tried it on, without feathering, and that's with the cartridge it came with (own brand), and Diamine Oxblood in the converter I got for it. Which, I suppose, proves that you get what you pay for? Although from remembering using fountain pens when I was younger, I never (iirc) had trouble with ink feathering on paper, and I was using cheap ass pens then because my mum couldn't afford to buy me anything better. So honestly, WHO KNOWS.
Look. I just really like pens okay, and I need to tell this all to someone, because if I tell my friend Sarah I bought cheap fountain pens, she will yell at me (I mean, not really, but also pens are SRS BSNS for her - she recced me the Kaweco, and she owns at least one Sailor, and TWSBI Eco. She doesn't do pens under £10, probably. I will have to ask her one day!)
All of this makes me wish I'd kept using a fountain pen past the age of twenty. I was about eleven when I first started using them (either on my mum's instructions or because other people at school did, and I wanted to be like them). But as I gradually got older, I turned to gel pens and biros instead. The last time I remember really using a fountain pen was when I was copying hieroglyphs from books when I was around twenty. BUT. I'm going to restart using them! Especially if it means less hand pain/stress on my wrist. Not that I write tons of anything these days, but maybe one day I will write more again, who knows.
Okay, time to go and do something else, I think, since I don't think I have anything else to say!
~
*The Jinhao 992 (Sailor 1911 clone), and the 599 (Lamy Safari clone). I partly wanted pens of my own, but I also wanted a cheap one I could use outside the house and not cry (too much) if I lost it.
**There are A LOT, as Sheaffer were her favourite brand of fountain pen.
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